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PeterH P
PeterH Dec 9, 2005 19:27:03
Replying to TMA Ed

I have never understood quite why the Modern Antiquarian is so keen to keep to the prehistoric straight and narrow. The old time antiquarians didn't restrict themselves in that way - they were interested in anything and everything of a venerable age.

Whereas you can never be certain about just how long wells and springs have been sacred or holy, you can be certain that they are as old as the local geology. Its much more difficult to defend the inclusion of hill figures apart from Uffington, but then losing Cerne Abbas would leave your HH man in a strange position. Turf mazes are medieval without doubt. The really dodgy sites are the spurious cup marks and natural rocks that are declared to be "standing stones"

If you want to be purely prehistoric then clearly you have a great deal of purging to do, but why remove features that members find interesting?
Why restrict yourself so narrowly? Your decision of course, but at least ask yourself why. Doesn't affect me as my main interest lies in Holy Wells and the early medieval and so I post my photos elsewhere.

P Paulus
Paulus Dec 9, 2005 21:05:51
Replying to PeterH

This thread is primarily about deleting crap or non-existent sites with no archaeocentric validity - and not about restricting the types of sites on TMA. Thankfully we've got a very broad selection of site-material from which TMA can draw upon, including holy wells, hill-figures, labyrinths, etc. And I assume it's gonne be kept that way.

< Doesn't affect me as my main interest lies in Holy Wells and the early medieval and so I post my photos elsewhere. >

Yeah, I've noticed. Considering that you have so much to say, it's odd that you aint put a single item on this site. Why's that?

F FourWinds
FourWinds Dec 10, 2005 09:25:22
Replying to PeterH

TMA was devised as an extension to the book. Julian knows the book only touched on the surface of a massive subject site-wise and wanted to allow it to grow. From the beginning the site has been open and it has been left to go where people want it to go within reason. The lack of an editorial team was a problem early on (it's still not perfect) but the main thing is that TMA remains true to it's original purpose. Why should it change?

There are other sites out there that deal with other areas/eras quite well and there isn't any reason why TMA should dilute itself with other stuff that bears no relation to the original theme just to be popularist, apart from just to be popularist ... and that ain't a very Cope thing to do :-)

With their current content both megalithomania and the Megalithic Portal should probably be renamed to something more generic. It's fun that the Modern Antiquarian has the most generic 'cover all' name and yet is the most tight on it's content era-wise ;-)